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The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-03-06
The r.. and o. Arthur XIII Banauet.

WASHINGTON, NJ ,rch 5.-The Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad officials here celebrated
the final success III outcome of their bill
to bride the Arthur Kill by banquet at
Welcker's last night. Both Senators Sew
ell and Mcpherson were invited to attend,
but they declined with thanks.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-03-06
APPLICABLE Refnses ava Accounting.

New BRUNSWICK, N. j., March 5.-Lewis
Apologize, executor of the Malloy estate,
who is accused by Miss Annie Herder of
derelictness, if not dishonesty, refuses to
give an accounting unless compelled to do
SO by the Court of Chancery.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-03-06

The --latest Information Sent te the News
by the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
Joseph Bingham. of the indianapolis Seaanol,
committed suicide yesterday morning, by cutting
his throat from ear to with razor.
King Oscar, of Sweden has dissolved the Rig
stag for refusing to vote the Estimates asked by the
Government,
Sir Michael Hicks Beach Chief Secretary for
Ireland. has resigned. He has been succeeded by
the Right Hsn. Arthur J. Balfeur. Secretary of
State for Scotland
Mrs. Bslle Ellsworth aud John Nelbart commit
ted suicide Jointly at West Newton, Pennsyl vania
yesterday.
Rain, warm or southerly winds to-day
W. B. Schuvler, clerk in the Queen Insurance
Company in Wall street. New York committed sal
eide in the Harlem Hotel, 18th street. ysse =.
day.
Petsr Hseelman beat the 2s-nile soss.you-
please record at Pkiadelphia last 4 light in hon
and a minutes.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-03-06
Joe Warren's sales.

See Joseph Warren's auctioneers' adve9-
tiselnents OF thu valuable store and tens-
ment property, corner Of Newark and Pali-
SADIE avenues, 60 DO sold to the highest bid
deIs tomorrow at P. m., on the premises.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-03-06

Frank Kerner, ten-year old boy OF 1873
Dudley street, had his leg broken vest r
day, while playing on coal cart on War.
rem street. DIR. McGill attegded him and
sent him to the Hospital.
The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-03-06
A Vtcar-Geuerai

ALBANY, March 5-Right2 Rev. bishop
McNeirny has appointed the Raw I. NJ. A.
Burke. of S.. Joseph's Church, vicar-G snsr-
al of the Albany diocese.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-21
Camp Meeting Religion.


Rev. David Updegraff surprised a poor old
woman this morning. Who told him at the expe-
rience meeting that she was experiencing the
joys of religion, but not satisfied and
wanted more.
That's not right, sister," said he, don't /
beg of you, don't, please don't, be continually
hollering FOR all the time There's no
sense at all in it. What would you think of me
if. after had eaten my breakfast this morning,
l should have gone a friend and said On!
brother. but / have just had such delightful
breakfast; I'm full, but | want more!' l don't
think that style of talking would be much of an
advertisement for the restaurant proprietor"
Another in the audience, brother, arose and
deplored the fact that his pride was keeping him
from enjoying the comforts of religion. IT
need said he. ito be broken up"
YES" was friend Updegraff's cheerful and
consoling reply. You must get smashed some
how or other. Do you try to die dailyP
guess you do, though, for you look like dead
man."
Mr.. Updegraff. of course. intended this last
remark to be taken in fgurative sense. but
nevertheless. the audience laughed heartily.
The benign old Quaker said man had asked
him if it was possible for man to have ten
pound dunbbell drop on his toes without say
ing 'thunderaton!n good graclous" and
also whether entire sanctifcation would be of
any material assistance under such circum-
stances
Certainly" answered Mr.. Updegraff, 81
once fell down stairs and broke my leg. and
shouted Immediately, Praise the Lord. and
meant IL, too. why did you shout Praise the
Lord asked friend Because answered.
I was thankful that hadnt broken my neck .
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-21

boston transcript.
While in New Yerk a few days since, writes
Fuller Walker, took the opportunity to visit
some of the leading decorative artists, just to
learn what is the prettiest and newest thing out
for the furnishing of rooms At the Office of the
Art Age, West Twenty-third street, saw a
whole room lined with what called Russian
crash, or burlap. 1t be had in New York
6S inches wide. for fifty cents yard. 1t is of a
light pearl color closely woven. and makes an
admirable back ground for any style color of
decorations. The room I saw was lined with
this crash, narrow fold of the same being put
over tn, ssan' pr vine q the Q lg join ID
frieZe OF the ound the top of the
room. This had been hand painted in oils and
was fastened to the wall at it's lower edge with
large-headed brass tacks. The effect of
the whole was very rich and fine. Such
tint and material made good natural back
ground for pictures, especially euravings. to
hang against Brown linen, such as busters
are made OF, is now being much used to decorate
rooms with. Flowers a conventional design
be painted this cloth in fresco colors,
such as scene painters Any mix
these coors. and with little practice will be
able to paint charming designs. A hall bed room
would be good room TO begin upon. Calling upon
a celebrated physician in New York l found his
library, above the book cases lined with deep
red straw mating, tackled with brass tacks.
The effect all that could be desired Wall
papers have bad their day, unless they are very
fine and artistic No modern house of any
pretensions tolerates wallpaper A room
may be very cheaply and beautifully decorated
with stuffs of all kinds, if only will give the
subject little thought and co at it.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-21
Hot Weather Hints.

Special to the lndianaDoIis Journal
New YORK. Aug. 20.-The extreme heat has
made us think OF everything that may tend to
make us more comfortable Our raiment 10 the
first consideration. / saw the other day such a
delightful robe that the very perfection for
these days. 1t was made of white China silk
the coolest fabric ever invented made with
a yoke and very full skirt in other words. it
was a like a mother Hubbard only it trained on
The ground. and was loosely confined at the
waist by silver girde; there were wide flow
ing sleeves. The lady who wore it was very
attractive aud looked like the picture of a
priestess All her underclothing was of the
same material OF course, no corset was worn
She look ed and was perfectly cool. A great pre-
venttve of flies, and it is also cooling the air.
is to have small blocks of ice fancy dishes over
which caIbolic acid is poured, set about
apartment.
The Bosronians are fond Of odd novelties of
the table. A favorite desert of theirs is to hol-
low out a block of ice and place within cubes of
muskmelon. 1t is cut up in the morning, placed
in the ice. covered with block of ice and served
at O'Clock dinner. Over this frozen melon is
sprinkled sherry and powdered sugar. Brown
bread ice cream is favorite Boston dish. The
brown bread is permitted to become stale: IL Is
then grated into the usual Ingredients for ice
cream, and is delicious. HucIleberry ice cream
Is also appetizing and looks pretty. 1t makes
an ice-cream almost black and Is novelty.
Huckleberry griddie cakes for breakfast and
fried sliced bananas are favorte dishes with the
wealthy Bostonians, are also stewed red cur
rants. Almost all fresh fruits are cooked as
breakfast dishes, and stewed cucumbers never
prove injurious, while they are an attractive
dish.
They also keep at hand to sip all day an ice
pitcher filed with cream of tartar water sweet
ened This not only cools the blood but is q
wonderful nervine. the French know, who in
variably sip sweeteued water
If people will ordinary precautions not to
over-exert and will conflne themselves to those
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-21
Decline of Glass Newspapers.

st. Louis Globe Democrat.
In the last half-dozen years the leading sport
ing papers of the country have been rapidly
losing their prestige and circulation. They
now taken by small and steadily narrowing
from habit and from old associations which they
recall Class publications are on the decline
simply because the particular individuals
10 whom they cater are beginning to
take the daily papers instead. The great
dailies report all occurrences which
of interest to any considerable portion of the
community and usually report them fuller. and
always earlier and better than the class papers
do They have far greater resources and better
trained news gathsrers and writer's than class
papers have, without possessing the bias which
makes the utterances of the latter journals SO
extravsgant and unreliable. The purely religious
periodicals are to some extent, and from the
same cause. experiencing the ill-fortune which
is driving the labor and sporting papers out of
the field Like influences will doubtless also
tell disastrously against all the magazines ex-
cept those OF the highest order of literary and
artistic merit at period in the future compare
lively near at hand. Newspapers and maya
zines have In the past few years, largely super
seeded books by presenting the matter which
books would contain in more concise and read
able shape than books could give it. few
years hence the persons who desire the best
thoughts of the worlds best minds will
have to seek them in the newspapers where in
deed. to a large extent they are alone to be
found row.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-21

protest against the lady's munifcence. They
declared that she had not been in her right
mind for a long time. ana didn't know what she
was doing when she yielded to the undue inf1u-
ence brought to bear upon her. Though the
minister knew that she sane as her hus-
band, to say the least, and that the con-
tribution perfectly voluntary, yet
disincination to become mixed up in legal
proceedings, which were limited at, in
duced him to send back the money. So far
good but now comes the sequel. The husband
recently sold a tract of land; the deed was duly
drawn, signed and sealed by the Rrantor. who
passed it to his wife to sign for the relinquish-
ment of DOVER but to his astonishment she in
terposed slight objection. mo. am not in my
right mind, you know, and my act would be
void,' was her reply: and in spite of all solicta-
tions shs refuses the courtesy of her autograph.
and the old gentleman has the land still his
hands, instead of the money in his pocket.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-21
some of Oscar yviide,s Stories.

Louise Chandler Moulton. in Boston Herald.
The mention of Oscar Wilde reminds me what
good stories he tells. He told two the other day
illustrative of the disadvantages of the houses
in a block being too much alike. A
asked to dinner, and he to the house the
next door to the one where he had been hidden
His name was announced, and his host STEPPED
forward to welcome him. AS it CHANGED.
the guest knew the wife aud
the husband. Il am SO very
sorry, said the host, that my wife is too i'll to
come down stairs. But must get well
can without her" Still thinking he was
in the right place, the guest stayed on, took a
pretty girl in to dinner and had a charming
evening. Two days afterward he me. the lady
who was to have entertained him. and she as
sailed him with reproaches for spelling the
symmetry of her dinner table, and it out
that he had inadvertently diued next door,
The other tale was of a curious looking old
couple. who went TO an evening party They
knew one and seemed desperately out of
place When the last guests gone. the
husband said to the wife: Queer old codgers
those two old friends of yours" "Of mine.
Why. they were your friends, surely, / never
saw them before" WELL I'm sure | never did!n
and inquiry elected the fact that there was a
servants ball next door, and that the old couple
had meant to go there, and had been as nncom-
Portable possible at not finding any of their
acguaintances
When Mr. Wilde told these stories they
sounded true, but now I've written them down,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-21
A Case for Lynch Law.
Chicago Journal.

Nhlcago journal
III it is il-bred and vulgar for q man at a
restaurant-table to rattle his knife and fork and
ether table ware, 1t 10 beastly for him pick
his teeth there. Twenty years ago it was wei!
understood by all decent people that the teeth
were not to be picked or sucked in sight of other
people, let alone at the table But the intro
duction OF the wooden tooth pick has changed all
this This highly useful little article is
almost omnipresent. 1t has an honored
place on the counter OF the hotel and restaurant
Office, and on the very dinner-table itself En-
couraged by its presence, the human hog. while
waiting for his second course, seizes tootbpick.
and whites away the moments in excayatine the
debris OF his first course from his hollow teeth
In reaching his back teeth, sometimes tooth
pick and thumb and forefinger disappear
in the hole in his countenance There is
no help for it now, but the time will come
when the police will be rung in to arrest
such n creature. To the shame of such men I
will inform them that have been told by physi-
clans that the human mouth, as il exists is
the most revolving part of the human body. Ma
ture made il a beautiful feature; but dyspepsia
neglect decay, whisky and tobacco have made
it n holy horror. Unless one wants to make all
around him sick, let him not force on them any
imagination of the inside of his mouth. Any
tinkering of the teeth, any sound Of suction
in the mouth at dinner table justifes lynch
law
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-21
Society's Diversions.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
New YORK, Aug. 20.-There is a supposition
that everything, even of a pleasurable nature
in and around Boston must also be instructive /
passed my Fourth of July in delightfully."- an
tique town sufficiently Boston to feel its
influence in matters of culture, amusement, etc.
A club of young ladies. some married, other
single, have formed reading circle to familiar
ize themselves with standard works. Now of
course everybody has read the standard works
matter of principle. but they ecome stand
ard" because they will always bear reading
and we all forget Just now this deli ghttul
club. which meets every Saturday morning at
different members house. is engaged in re-readine
and studying the works of Washington Irving
Last year they read Dickens Scott and Shak-
speare. They have also read Thackeray, Cooper
and Hawthorne. Their intention is de-
vote themselves entirely to the American
writers after Irving. It is not the fashio n in
Society to talk books. more's the pity, unless it
is some very recent writer who has suddenly
come into prominence. But the best part of
these readings is the finale. Whenever the club
finishes the works of author they give cos
tune party. inviting as many of their friends
they deem desirable of both sexes, and each one
of the guests must appear dressed in the charac-
ter of one of IrvingIs heroes heroines. The
last costume party was Thackeray party: it
was held on the evening of Washinetons birth
dav and a brilliant success There were
Jack Ccstigans and Emily Fotheringays, Major
and Arthur Pendennis, The Begun. Becky
Sharp, Amelia, Dobbln and all the other de-
lightful and familiar characters.
This is good way for people at summer ho-
tells to amuse themselves, and it is also novel
ty. Of course. the guests would not have time
to become familiar with all the works of a
great writer, but some one book might be
iected, which all could surely find time for. and
then the character party could be taken from
that one book Veil done there is much genu
inc am1semen. as well as instruction in such
entertainment The Bostonians consider these
affairs the most sensible pleasures that either
the winter summer season affords and of
only the educated and cultivated care for
such pleasures, it goes without saying such par
ties very fashionable; and not to be able to
participate argues that one is not considered of
sufficient mental capacity to enjoy them.
1t is long stride in the right direction, from
the inane sheet and pillow case parties that used
to be so fashionable at summer resorts.
EVELYN BAKER HARvIER.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-21
The Tower of Babel.

Inc rover Oh B3D0Is
Once many centuries ago.
Men tried to build a tower so high
That, rising upward round on round,
The pinnacle should reach the sky.
And as they toiled and built and dreamed and
planned,
What hopes went upward with the rising stone
That daring feet ere long should mount and stand
Upon the golden stairway to the throne
And then a swift confusion fell
Upon the workers building there.
Men called and shouted, each to each,
With strange, uncomprehended speech
And what it meant could tell,
So they left building. in despair.
Yet in their hearts lived still the hope that they
Might scale the ramparts of the sky, some day.
Sometimes souls expand and glow
With holy visions, bright and pure,
But when. from these deep wales below,
We proudly try to climb and reach
With clumsy masonry of speech,
And rounds of rhyme that shall endure,
That sky-born thing that heavenly theme,
Touched only by prayer dream.
A swift confusion DER flies.
And sudden chills our hands benumb.
Our minds are blurred, tongues dumb
The holy vision fades and dies.
Yet still we drea N that song some time may be
Rung through the arches of eternity
Albion Mary Fellows.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-21
Keeping the Tryst.

Next year, you said, will see us stand,
God willing. here upon the shore.
And | will hold my true loves hand
And look into b er eyes once more.
Dear heart He has not willed it so;
l keep the tryst, to-day. alone,
And wonder if you 60 not know
The hour is come and you are gone.
And if the fields of Paradise
Are greener than this strip of land;
If you remember, still. my eyes
And the light touch of my warm hand.
All foolish fancies: well know
You are saint and dwell with saints,
Who reck not of the world below,
Whose ears are closed to our complaints.
And yet. this is orr tryst: pray,
Lord. if such thing could ever be,
Give him a human heart to-day;
A wish to come to
Ruth Hall, in American Magazine
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-21
AForsaken Garden.

Not flower to be pressed of the foot that falls not;
AS the heart of dead man the ed-pots dry;
From the thickets of thorns whence the nghtng gale
calls not,
Could she call. there never a to reply.
Over the meadows that blossom and wither
Rings but the note of a sea birds song,
Only the and the rain come hither
All year long.
The burns sore, and the rain dshevels
One gaunt bleak blossom of seediess BREATH
Only the wind here hovers and revels
In around where life seems barren death.
Here there laughing of old, there weeping,
HAPPY. of lovers none ever will know.
Whose eyes went seward hundred sleeping
Years ago.
-Algernon G. Swinburne.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-21
Aug st.

All the long August afternoon,
The little drowsy stream
Whispers a melancholy tune.
AS if it whispered of June
And whispered in its dream
The thistles show beyond the brook
Dust on their down and bloom,
And out of many a weed-grown nook
The aster flowers look
With eyes of tender gloom.
The silent orchard aisIes are sweet
With smell of ripening fruit,
Through the sere grass, in shy retreat,
Flutter at coming feet
The robins strange and mute
There is no wind TO stir the leaves
The harsh leaves overhead;
Only the querulous cricket grieves,
And shrilling locust weaves
A song of summer dead.
w. D. HoweIls.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-21

really don't think they do. However. 81 tell
the tale as heard it told: and also I'll tell you
another one, widely current in London, that a
certain Duchess IN vited one of the cowboys of
the American exhibition to dine, and he arrived
at the appointed time with his wife and baby.
He said there was no to leave the baby with,
SO he had to bring him. The baby was confided
to the ducal nursery and the dinner was served.
It's the fashion to tell this story, so you may
we'll believe il.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-21
Not In Her Right Mind.

NeWbuTypOrt Herald.
An elderly married lady in Byfield. who pos
sesses property in her own right, had frequently
expressed desire to make a donation to the
church with which she is connected when a
suitable occasion offered. Accordingly, when
the society determined on repairing and remod-
cling the meeting house. the minister. AS chair
man of the soliciting comittee,c allied on her for
contribution, and was presented with check
for 5000 The good clergyman went home high
~ elated. but was taken terribly aback the next
day when the lady's husband and called TO
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-21
A Character.

Swallowed up in CULTS of tho't--
Eye-glass fixed on-who knows WHAT
We but know he sees us not.
Chance upon him, here and there
Base ball park-Industrial Fair
Broadway-Long Branch-anywhere.-
Even at the races,-yet
With his eye glass tranced and set
On some dreamland minaret.
At the beach. the where. perchance,
Tenderest of eyes may glance
On the fitness of his pants
Vain all admiration-vain!
His mouth, DER and DER again,
Absently absorbs his cane.
Vain, as well. all tribute paid
To his morning coat, inlaid
With crossbars of every shade.
He is so oblivious, tho
We played checkers to and fro
On his back-he would not know.
So Observation-Disclosures
Pc ace kiss hands, and leave him thus.
He hath never need of us.
Come away! Enough! Let be-!
Purest praise, to such as he,
Were as basest obloquy.
Vex no more that mind of his
We. to him. are but phizz
Unto pop that knows it is.
HAPPY. even as we prate
Of him HEREIN astral state
Or jackastra1-he, elate.
Brouses round. with sportive hops,
In far fields of sphery crops,
Nibbling stars like clover tops.
He. occult and psychic, may
Now be solving why to-day
Is not midnight.-But away
Cease vain queries! Let US goi
Leave him all unfathomed.-Lo,
He can hear his wniskers grow.
james WhItcomb Riley
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-21

articles of food that are non heat producing,
and do allow the slightest pressure of the
clothing on the body, they may defy even tho
Their mometer among the nneties.
EVELYN BAKER HARvIER-
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-10-08

beg to add to Mr.. WIYGERTs card the
hope that shall be able to merit the contin-
uance Of the patronage he has enjoyed. To
this end shall secure the services of thor
oughly competent druggist at an early date.
Meanwhile. Mr.. WISGERT will remain in the
store and give the business his accustomed
attention. [Sept 24] I.C. LAMBERT.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1887-10-08

Special.-During the ensuing 80 days
will sell as much of my present stock of Fur
niture. etc., as | can. Prices are, therefore,
reduced to cost 10 cash buyers. l am compelled
to remove from my present quaraters i'll the
Schaub building, and, until my new estab-
lishment is ready for occupation, am cramp-
ed for space. The more goods ] can sell, the
less / will have to remove. No pretense
about this. c. f. NICKEL.